Preface: Reading in place -- TRAVELERS -- Letter from Tasmania -- Travelers: Herodotus and Patrick Leigh Fermor -- The silk road of poetry: Omar Khayyam and Edward FitzGerald -- The unseeable, unsayable world -- Reading Greece -- Walking into the heart of Greece: Kevin Andrews -- So he'll go no more a-roving: Patrick Leigh Fermor -- The news from everywhere: Bruce Chatwin -- EXILES, ECCENTRICS, IMMIGRANTS -- Man of action, man of letters: Joseph Conrad -- A mad master of modernism: Ezra Pound -- Creating a literary hero: James Joyce -- Awe for Auden -- The name inside the name: Kevin Hart -- Ariel and Co.: Les Murray, Cally Conan-Davies -- VOICES, PLACES -- Voices, places -- To humanize the "inhumanist": Robinson Jeffers -- Belle Turnbull's western narrative -- A poet of the unaffiliated left: Thomas McGrath -- The western prophets: Wallace Stegner and Edward Abbey.